IPUC's Technological Fair: Space of opportunity and experience for new technologies and space from perceptions of social impacts of technologies

Abstract

This paper aims to show the IPUC's Technological Fair, an event that is held twice a year by Polytechnic Institute of Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais - IPUC, is currently in its 6th edition. The creativity and innovation of most of these projects from engineering students frequently result in simple and low cost solutions. These projects involve around one thousand students from several areas of engineering of IPUC and they are exposed in the bustling fair. Both issues gained in joining the formation team to work with the challenges of the poverty and development sustainable. The creation of the group IEEE SIGTH PUC Minas was a natural way. The presentations of prototypes and research results are the main advantage of the fair. Various topics have being worked, such as, entrepreneurship including the entrepreneurship social, the accessible and assistive technology, medical technology and of the health, therefore Humanitarian Technology. Renewable resources with several kinds of applications Interdisciplinary Projects can providing to engaged students important skills of self reflection, communication with others forms of the knowledge and holistic view.